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Pazuzu Algarad and a woman who calls herself his wife,

Amber Burch, are both now charged with murder.

The doctor actually diagnosed him with

Schizotypal Personality Disorder;

the guy is clinically psychotic.

At some point he had used something to sharpen his teeth.

I just wanted to get away from the drugs and

get away from Pazuzu.

Right when I got back from my deployment,

I went to the police.

♪

Heroin really was always an escape,

but it quickly becomes a requirement.

It's all encompassing.

A pair of bodies were found buried in a backyard

of a Clemmons home.

A lot of questions were created from that

rather than answered.

♪

♪

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Well, it's a story from right here in the Piedmont

that's actually making headlines around the world.

Tonight at 10 o'clock, Channel 9 just obtained

this video shot inside the home of an accused

devil worshiper charged with the murder of

a father with ties to Salisbury.

Investigators say Pazuzu Algarad killed

Joshua Wetzler and then buried him in his backyard.

For years, neighbors say Pazuzu Algarad transformed a

nice home on Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons into

a domain for the devil.

The pure evil that was within him was able to

thrive in that environment.

Pazuzu Algarad took part in Satanic rituals.

Algarad's tongue was split, like a snake,

moving in different directions, licking his own face.

He picked up two prostitutes at two separate locations

before he killed and ate them.

And you can tell when his demons

needed something from him because they took over.

And here we have a man who worships the devil.

He is anti‐Christ.

♪

Satan sells.

It wasn't long before the rumor mill took up the charge:

Pazuzu's tongue is split in two,

his teeth are filed down to points,

he ate the beating hearts of the rabbits he sacrificed...

But no one was really bothering to find out

if any of this stuff is true, as if that didn't really matter.

[Indistinct speaking]

I don't usually do that. I'll tell you.

You can, and it'll loosen. Yeah, yeah.

No, whack it. Commit, commit.

Feel it. Very good.

It's about the same size as that kid's penis that

sent you the pictures.

‐ Whoa! ‐ It's like the same size...

Yeah. Pretend it's that.

It's a whole lot easier to look at Pazuzu and

his jacked‐up face, and all his stuff,

and his sharpened teeth, and go,

"Wow, that's not me. That's not my kid."

That's an interesting salad y'all have created there.

It's a whole lot harder to look in the mirror and then

look over at your kid and go,

"Could my kid go that way?

What am I doing to my kid that could possibly create

another John Lawson?"

♪

We started writing a six, seven‐thousand‐word piece,

and it was a profile. I was trying to get personal.

Background matters and every second of John Lawson's life

led up to the moment that the police find bodies

in his backyard.

♪

There's not really too much that we know yet because,

I mean, a lot of the people close to Pazuzu

were afraid to talk.

♪

Here's what we do know.

He was born in California to young parents.

These young parents don't really get along all that great,

they're bouncing back between California, North Carolina.

And finally, mom and dad split.

Then, when John's about five,

he ends up in Clemmons with his mom, Cynthia,

who takes on the job of raising him on her own.

(birds chirping)

(clock ticking)

He was very, very sad. He was a very sad kid.

(clock ticking)

Cynthia, she was my best friend.

And my son become very best friends with Johnny.

♪

He come Friday, Saturday, and Sunday he stay at the house.

Six o'clock in the morning, there he is,

in the morning, you know.

I love that little boy because to me he was very nice.

He was a good kid.

You know, the thing that he does that he wants to be

a vampire, you know, he was a vampire,

in his mind, he was.

♪

When I met Johnny, he was weird.

He wore this big cape, black cape with his teeth.

He was so little and so tiny, you know,

he was very skinny.

He loved the movies, like you know,

he watches Jason, Freddy Krueger,

the vampire movie. He was all those people.

Sometimes he does things that were

kind of out of place.

♪

When Johnny was probably eight years old,

Johnny was very abusive, you know, of her.

He hit her and stuff like that.

So she put him in a mental hospital and me and her

went to see Johnny, and my heart broke because I say,

you know, that little boy, he didn't need to be there.

The one that needs to be there is that woman, the mama.

♪

She drinks a lot, for one.

And she goes with all these guys. I mean,

she leave Johnny behind and there she goes.

Johnny see all that stuff, and you know,

the little kid, you know, get...

in his mind, you know, like, "Why my mama do that?"

Nobody knows what that little boy went through.

When you get this bulldog and they're mean,

what's the reason they're mean? Because you just hit him,

hit him, the dog, so they have to be mean, too.

It's sad.

♪

(dog growling)

Me and Antoine lived together three times.

(clears throat)

So, I was kind of just going back to the start, really.

♪

We both see our ups and downs at different points, you know.

Yeah... And, ah...

I mean, these guys are more family to me than

some of my actual family, really.

Mhm. Most definitely.

I'm Antoine Hardie, brother of Matt Flowers ‐

almost married his sister. Ah, have a kid with her.

And, he and I go back like car seats.

(Laughs)

I feel like people take advantage of Matt and his,

his idea of wanting to be a protector.

I really honestly do.

Like I say, I've seen people call him up for, you know,

shit that they've gotten themselves into and

wanting him to have their back, and you know,

put himself into a situation where he could get in trouble.

♪

Pazuzu being one of them.

Pazuzu always talked about building a legion, and like,

having this like army of ááááed up people and like,

he tried to like push me and manipulate me into doing

some ááááed up shit. He's like, "Yeah, ááááing do it. Do it."

You know, I'm happy he's in prison.

The things he did is unforgivable.

♪

The further I got into researching this

kid's background, the more I realized how skilled

he was at bringing other kids into whatever he was up to.

He made everyone an accomplice.

Pazuzu really liked that idea of a family killing people.

♪

I think he felt powerful in bringing in other parties,

and I think he felt a certain sense of power by

stripping that last shred of innocence by involving them

in something that sinister.

I find it very odd that, yeah, I do, I do kind of miss him.

♪

Did Nate tell you about how he paid for... the floors?

♪

I had really good credit from my mom paying off my student loan,

so I took out a Lowe's credit line so I could

buy hardware and go pawn it for cash to get drugs.

And, Pazuzu and Amber came to me one day, saying,

"We want to start cleaning up the house".

So I was like, well, shit, I'll buy you guys

some ááááing... some ááááing floor and

we'll rip out the carpet and we'll put it in.

Helped them install it and everything.

And then, a few weeks later, that was when I first heard

the rumors about the murders and I was like,

"Ah..." (Laughs) Did, did... I just get...

Producer: I mean, I guess you couldn't tell.

No... But I, I think I just brought the flooring over.

I think I came back later after they had ripped the carpet out.

I don't think I was actually there to pull up the carpet.

Yeah... Yeah.

♪

Every day, he drank at school.

People called him turd boy. You know, "turd boy!"

He dropped out of school.

He reemerged as a male witch,

or self‐proclaimed male witch.

♪

♪

As I'm writing about Pazuzu and doing all of this

research into his past, I'm coming up against

a lot of dead ends.

This is the south; things move at their own pace.

But even so, this story's proving particularly difficult.

The police aren't talking; the family's not talking.

And, I mean, I'm drowning in rumors,

but I'm still trying to get to the actual facts of the matter.

West Forsyth yearbook, '93 to '95.

Well, we can go...

What are the odds of us actually finding that?

I don't know; they're probably not very good.

(Laughs)

The deal is trying to figure out when this boy

was in school because he kept failing,

from what I understand.

He was not exactly your model student.

Oh! Yeah, I had a lot of classmates like that‐‐

Oh, here he‐‐ Here he is. No, I reckon‐‐

Put all the tattoos on his face; that's the same joker.

All right, so, now it's set up for a quick scan and

we just click and watch what happens.

(machine whistling)

‐ I love that little sound... ‐ (Chad laughs)

...that it makes. And here's our boy.

There he is, John Lawson. Isn't he cute?

Now, this is another yearbook.

Now, he's kind of in the same class.

He's still a freshman this year. Not a lot of...

I knew people who were in sixth grade for three years.

Not a lot of who were moving on to a career.

Woo...

John Lawson, year two, same grade.

Looks like somebody like popped him between the eyes

with a ball‐peen hammer right before they took the photo.

‐ It does. ‐ He looks stoned.

I guess, this is year two, freshman year.

Let's get started, yes.

All right, we'll save that one.

What people have globbed onto is the simplistic story:

This is a guy who is dealing with the dark arts.

He was dealing in the darkest depths of‐‐

You know, and then, and he murdered people.

And now we understand it because we can get

our head around it, and what you miss

are the people and the human beings.

♪

He was a nice kid.

♪

Every once in a while I'd give him a ride home from school.

♪

My name is Stephanie Seidel.

I actually live three houses down

across the street from Pazuzu.

People called him turd boy and they would,

you know, (mocking tone) "Turd boy!"

I could see it in his face how upsetting it was.

♪

I don't know why, but he smelled like human excrement.

♪

He was an 18‐year‐old freshman, yeah.

Every day he drank at school.

The teachers just turned a blind eye.

My name's Aaron. I was a classmate of John ‐

Pazuzu ‐ whatever you want to call him.

I showed him some things, a few guitar lessons.

He dropped out of school. When he reemerged,

he reemerged as a male witch, or self‐proclaimed male witch.

♪

I think that whatever irked someone is

what he wanted to be.

♪

He wanted to be the bad guy.

♪

This is the suburbs.

It is fundamentalist and they're serious about it.

I think at some point, John Lawson realized,

living in the suburbs of Forsyth County,

he was never gonna quite be the top guy,

so he decided, "If I'm gonna be bad,

I'm gonna be bad as I can be".

He would talk about, his father didn't want him,

and that being a factor in why

he wanted to kill himself.

♪

Oh, he had a hundred ways he wanted to do it, you know.

With a shotgun, like Kurt Cobain.

Or, you know, he would talk about,

well, you know, when you slit your wrists in the bathtub,

you just get real dizzy and then you die.

♪

(phone ringing)

Yeah, is this Johnny James?

Yeah, sir. My name is Chad Nance.

I'm the owner and one of the journalists at the

Camel City Dispatch.

What I'm calling you about is the Pazuzu Algarad case, and‐‐

No, I do understand, but part of the reason I wanted to

talk to you was to let you kind of clear some stuff up

because we got your name on the deed of the house.

I'm a step‐dad, so I mean, I know what it's like, you know.

(Laughs)

He did? Do you think he hated you 'cause he was‐‐

you'd taken mom away from him, or was he just hateful?

(Dial tone)

‐ Hello? ‐ (Dial tone)

That's a bummer, man.

Johnny James wouldn't go on the record with me,

and I understand. I can't really blame him.

Who wants to talk about all this awful stuff all the time?

But at the same time, you know,

if we don't look at the uncomfortable truths,

we may never really get beyond it.

I heard him scream, "I eff'in hate you..."

Um, "I want you to just get out of my life,

I wish you weren't here."

This is his screaming to his step‐dad.

According to the rumors that I've heard,

when Pazuzu's in his early twenties,

he demands his mom, Cynthia,

end her relationship with step‐dad Johnny James.

Choosing her son over her husband,

Cynthia convinced Johnny to move out of the house.

I mean, he sort of did whatever he wanted to do.

He was not ever bound by any authority figure.

♪

Psychologically, John was just a scared little boy.

So, I had a really hard time

seeing him puting a gun to somebody's head

and pulling the trigger.

♪

"Major findings at autopsy included gunshot wounds

of the head and torso."

(Sighs)

So, that's eight gunshot wounds.

It's easy to sit back and wonder how,

how the neighbors didn't know something was going on.

♪

It's been six months since officials discovered

human remains buried behind a house in Clemmons and

it will be at least another six months

before any trial can begin.

A judge rescheduled Pazuzu Algarad's case to October 29.

Matlock and Burch cases are expected to be

postponed as well.

♪

This is a rite of passage around here.

Hobo Beach, or the beach front,

whatever you want to call it.

(Laughs)

♪

Pazuzu always talked about ááááing people up and

hurting people, and doing all this crazy shit.

♪

He was like a really good actor.

He would be one guy around me and then a completely

different person around other people.

♪

He was cool to hang out with, but, like,

he really was Schizophrenic.

...been like two years since I been down here.

áááá society. Live in a tent.

Watch your step right there.

I think I kept him in a straight line.

People have been painting down here since like,

the 90s. (Laughs)

Like, we did like Jackass shit.

Just did dumb shit. We spray painted.

But while I'm spray painting, like, "Anarchy",

or whatever the áááá I was doing when I was a kid...

Pazuzu's spraying, like, inverted pentagrams and

"666" and he's like yelling, like,

"Where is your God now?" And I'm like,

"All right, whatever. I guess you're having fun."

Like, kind of stupid you said that.

But I think he took that shit too seriously, you know.

Ah, yeah, the reverb in here is awesome.

Look at this.

(claps & echoes)

Put some drums right here at the end.

Woo!

Actually, Pazuzu and I, back when he was like

kind of cool, we had like a little bonfire and we were

spray painting and we took the spray‐paint cans and

put it on the bonfire and we like ran that way...

Boom! Like, big ass flames, I can just hear it, like...

I can't believe no one came down here for that one.

‐ Shall we venture onward? ‐ Ah, sure.

I just think about it, you know, it's like, áááá...

I feel like if I didn't leave for the military that

it never would've happened. Never would've happened.

Straight up.

♪

For the first time, Pazuzu Algarad's mother

was in front of our camera.

Cynthia James met with county officials

over the fate of her house on Knob Hill Drive.

The County originally told the homeowner,

Algarad's mother, that she had until Christmas Day to decide ‐

tear it down or fix it up.

Ms. James had nothing to say during the hearing, or to us.

♪

Pazuzu's mother would have been the first person

I picked up.

There are legitimate questions, like,

how could you allow this to go on?

Were you intimidated and scared of your son

to the point that, you know, or did you just love your son and

were, you know, catering him to the point where

these things are allowed to happen.

Cynthia James... She's somewhat of a cipher.

I graduated from high school in 1996.

The house was beautiful, his mom took care of it.

They had cream colored carpet.

When you walked in, you took your shoes off.

I moved down here in 2010,

and it was a completely different scene.

The house was an absolute disaster.

You know, Pazuzu's living off his mom,

treating her like shit. She was paying all the bills,

buying him a case of beer every day, buying him,

you know, bags of rolling tobacco every day.

He's not doing anything good for anybody.

You know, as a parent, what do you do

when your situation spirals out of control...

when your kid drops out of school,

and when he starts abusing drugs,

and when he starts sacrificing animals?

Pazuzu used to sacrifice a rabbit.

Slitting rabbit's throats and dumping their blood and

rubbing the blood all over his face.

He felt like it would give him higher power.

There was a cat hanging in his tree. I saw it.

I know that it was a cat hanging in his tree.

At some point, you know, you just figure he felt

he had to take his animal sacrifice to the next level...

to human sacrifice.

♪

These are the autopsy reports for Josh.

This is the first time I've seen this, and...

You know, we just never heard anything back

from the DA or from the detectives.

"The cause of death for this 37‐year‐old Caucasian male,

Joshua Fredrick Wetzler, is multiple gunshot wounds.

Major findings at autopsy included gunshot wounds of

the head and torso with recovery of multiple bullet

and bullet fragments."

(sighs)

"Three gunshot wounds involve the head.

Four possibly..."

(sighs)

"Four and possibly five gunshot wounds

involving torso."

♪

So, that's eight gunshot wounds.

And so, you know, it just...

it seems like...

that somebody would have heard that.

♪

It's easy to sit back and wonder how the neighbors

didn't know something was going on.

The neighbor to the left, I mean...

You could be on their back deck and

see into Pazuzu's yard fine.

♪

You know, I'm just...

Glad I wasn't his neighbor.

♪

His name was John Lawson.

I knew a guy that was just locked up with him recently.

He said that they had locked down the whole jail because

he, he had his teeth filed,

he bit into an artery in his arm, and...

I guess they locked down the whole jail because of that.

So...

♪

Nate came around with Jenna not that long ago and

we just clicked, so we started hanging out.

And, basically, since we all use,

it's kind of like a little... (Laughs)

Like, everybody that uses knows everybody.

Oh, God. Seth said he feels so bad.

Oh, shit, that sucks.

My boyfriend goes to work sick every day.

Seth has a much harder habit than you do and he still

gets up and goes to work even though he's sick.

I know. I know, darling.

‐ Just, note it. ‐ I know.

It's why, it's why I want to quit altogether.

As soon as I get my financial aid disbursement,

I can get by Ibogaine and ááááing be done with it.

Have y'all ever thought about going to a clinic?

‐ I don't want to quit. ‐ You don't?

The rehabs around here are so shitty.

I don't have the insurance.

And the nice ones, like, the, like people in Hollywood

go to are like $60,000 a day. (Laughs)

I mean, I don't know who can afford that,

but I damn sure can't.

♪

♪

Algarad was transported to Central Prison

on a safekeeping order.

I sent the Sheriff's Department like three emails

and got nothing. I've left voicemails.

I got nothing.

There's the search warrants from 2014.

And then we found out that the search warrants were sealed.

There is something in those search warrants that

law enforcement didn't want out.

♪

Algarad was transported to Central Prison on a

safekeeping order as part of a joint request by both

his defense counsel and the district attorney's office.

♪

♪

I mean, I sent the Sheriff's Department...

At this point, I've sent him like 3 emails and got nothing.

I've left voicemails and got nothing.

We got no details on anything.

All we got is, what? Is, rumor and conjecture what people said.

We got all those comments that people are leaving and

that's all I know.

You think he's gonna actually tell us anything?

No, he's gonna say anything 'cause Brad Stanley and them

don't talk about anything.

I've got a bowl right here. I got this.

You got this? You go.

We end up having to do dirt bag research because

none of the authorities are talking.

The people who probably actually know the real story

are going to be people that were his teachers,

or counselors at school, or gonna be a psychiatrist

or something like that.

They cannot talk about this stuff.

They're not gonna go tell us stuff that's,

that they cannot release.

We gotta get something. I mean, 'cause

the only way we'll find out about these searches

is either talk to Miss Cynthia,

talk to somebody that was in the house

when these searches took place.

I mean, we don't have enough‐‐

So, we've hit a wall, let's just get on with it.

I just don't see how we can do it without

access to the courthouse.

We can't get access to the courthouse without a lawyer.

It's incredibly frustrating 'cause how do you tell

a whole story without all the facts?

And I know that there are people out there

who need some real answers.

(birds chirping)

♪

So, today is Mother's Day and I'm moving.

I had lost my job. I was a contract employee,

so I wasn't paid any kind of unemployment.

I'd worked really hard there,

but I never made any money.

♪

When Josh was found, Jared was able to

start receiving social security payments.

But, the day that he started receiving money was

based on the date that they found Josh,

which is the official date on his death certificate.

So, for those five years that Josh was missing,

Jared did not receive any social security money.

We had no financial support at all.

♪

Jared receives about $700 a month.

Over a five‐year period, we're talking about $35,000.

With that amount of money, we could've made

a down payment on a house. (Laughs)

♪

♪

Fortunately, Michael Hewlett found me on Facebook and

took an interest in the case.

He's told me a whole lot more than the DA or

the Sheriff's Department.

(indistinct speaking)

I'm Michael Hewlett. I'm the legal affairs reporter

at the Winston‐Salem Journal.

There was a Facebook page dedicated to Josh Wetzler...

and Stacey was the administrator for that site.

What I find is that a lot of victims,

they don't understand how these criminal cases go.

They think, oh, you know, it's like Law & Order.

Oh, the investigation and then...

oh, there's your trial, all of a sudden,

before the hour is over.

And, that's not how it happens in real life.

In real life, it... you know,

particularly for a murder case, you're talking about a

two, three‐year process, unfortunately.

Journalists, our job is to report.

If there's relevant information to a particular case

that people should know about,

we need to fight to get that information out.

When the remains were found, I immediately went to the

courthouse to see whether or not

there were search warrants.

Search warrants can provide a lot more information

than law enforcement are willing to say publicly.

I was looking for the search warrants

in the Amber Burch case.

We were told, yes,

there's these search warrants from 2014, and then

we found out that the search warrants were sealed.

There was something in those search warrants that

law enforcement didn't want out.

♪

On behalf of this whole street,

I just want to apologize to anybody involved.

We let two men be missing for five years.

It's actually somewhat of a mixed bag of emotions right now.

Woohoo! We're celebrating.

♪

♪

Said property is commonly known as

2749 Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons, North Carolina.

I have a bid of $123,798.39.

Going once...

Twice...

Three times.

That's what the whole neighborhood wants;

we just want the house gone.

Will it return the neighborhood to the way it was?

Yeah, I think so. I think so.

It's just, you know, everybody's been upset

for the last six months. It just needs to be gone.

♪

Good afternoon, thanks for joining us.

Crews started tearing down the former home of

Pazuzu Algarad around 8:45 this morning.

It's actually somewhat of a mixed bag of emotions right now.

Woohoo! We're celebrating.

This is a party. We are very excited.

We got the picnic spread already ready.

Michael, you got everything you need, buddy?

The neighborhood is having somewhat of a

neighborly gathering here, a celebration.

They're trying to keep it positive.

You can see some of that dust coming out of the house.

Neighbors were saying it was almost as though that dust

represented all of the evil spirits and the bad memories

which this house was holding, and just releasing them.

In a way I'm relieved, you know. I'm just sort of glad.

I wouldn't want it standing there like it was.

♪

We'll get back to our nice, quiet,

very wonderful neighborhood.

Hopefully, this provides some closure for them as well.

Guys...

They condemn the house; they take bulldozers out there;

they push it all into the basement,

tear up the swimming pool, cover the thing up,

fill it all full of dirt and wipe it clean from

the face of the earth.

All this happened in a matter of a few months.

They wiped it from the face of the earth that fast.

They don't want to talk about this anymore.

They want to "move on".

Move on, meaning not examine what caused this.

Don't look into my own heart and see

how I might be responsible.

Let's just move on and pretend it never happened.

When people think that you can put somebody in jail,

you can take down a house, that that somehow clears it...

They have no idea.

Didn't make anything better for my child.

It didn't make anything better for me or Tommy's family.

It did not fix anything.

You can't bring somebody's daddy back.

♪

On behalf of this whole street,

I just want to apologize to anybody involved because

I wish, I wish that we could have done something and

I'm so, so sorry that we let you down.

We let two men be missing for five years.

♪

I think Josh's death was totally preventable,

but nobody took responsibility.

When Pazuzu was young, there were people that were

well aware that there was a problem.

How did he fall through the cracks?

♪

As a society, we are failing.

And I mean, the answers aren't easy to come by,

but one thing I do know is that when you see someone

totally self‐destructing, or destroying themselves

or others, you gotta face it head‐on.

(birds chirping)

Jenna's parents let us move in with them.

And, since we don't have to pay bills or rent or

anything right now, it gives us a lot more money to,

to get high.

Well, I'd just gotten off of work last night...

Went to go get some drugs...

So I was on 485, about fifteen minutes out from here...

And, I ááááing wake up and I'm drifting over onto the

left side of the ááááing‐‐ I guess I was

in the fast lane and I jerked back over.

And, so of course, I fly across the ááááing road and

straight into the grass on the other side and there's

this like steep‐ass ááááing ditch.

I go straight down it. I was freaking out.

I'm not gonna lie. I was ááááing... crying, man.

I just got a ááááing bunch of work done on the car.

My mom spent $1,200 on that ááááing car yesterday.

And, you know, I was freaking out 'cause I was

afraid someone was gonna pull over and see me

on the side of the road and call the cops,

and you know, I got ááááing drugs in my system.

I mean, I probably should have just parked the car and

slept somewhere, but I had a bag for Jenna and

I wanted to bring it to her.

♪

(phone ringing)

‐ Phone: Hello? ‐ Hey.

‐ Hey, what's up? ‐ Um, nothing.

I just got up.

I ááááing totaled the car last night?

Did you give them the insurance information and everything?

No, I just had Jenna pick me up. I‐‐ I mean...

Were you, were you using?

Is that why you didn't call the police?

No, I was just‐‐ I mean, that's still technically a DWI,

isn't it, if you fall asleep at the wheel?

Well, you just don't tell 'em that.

You tell 'em that a deer jumped out in front of you,

or a dog.

Oh, yeah.

‐ But, yes, it is. ‐ Okay.

That's... bad.

And it's bad that you didn't call the police.

Yeah.

So, you need to do that, like, immediately.

Okay.

You do not put that off. You do it immediately, okay?

Okay. Okay.

Can you pass a test right now?

Yeah.

Well... Ah, shit.

♪

Like, as soon as Pazuzu finally got busted,

everyone came out of the woodwork.

"I knew him. We were friends."

I mean, he had this spit mask on. I mean,

it was straight up, like, the ááááing, the thing, you know.

The thing that like, the thing that

you never believe is real, like, in movies.

Like, it was real. It was real then.

The mainstream media in this case

went the sensationalist angle.

Camel City Dispatch did what we do;

at heart, we are humanist, and we took the humanist angle.

Because for us, it boils down to human beings and

how they behave towards one another and

how they are affected by the behavior of others.

♪

♪

"By all accounts, John Alexander Lawson

began life uneventfully, on August 12th of 1978."

♪

"Over the next twenty years, Lawson has done

everything he could to make himself seem evil,

powerful, and frightening.

This kid from West Forsyth looked in the mirror one day

and decided that what he saw wasn't good enough.

What he wanted to see was the boogeyman."

♪

"And by all accounts, he succeeded in spades."

♪

Pazuzu murdered people. He destroyed lives.

You can't explain that away with Satan and evil.

Ain't gonna do anybody any good.

You know, first, Pazuzu's search warrant's sealed,

then a safekeeping order is sealed.

And again, you know, I get the feeling that

it's just like, we don't want to look at this,

we don't want to talk about it.

We really don't want to face our

collective responsibility for what happened here.

♪

Pazuzu saw me as his brother, literally.

Literally, as a brother.

I really miss my friend, man.

I mean, I remember sitting there

talking to him sometimes, like...

He'd talk to me about life, and...

We were ááááing friends, dude,

and like, all this shit happened,

this stupid shit.

(Laughs) Hit me, man. Hit me.

(indistinct speaking & laughs)

He wasn't ááááing Pazuzu to me.

I was in for first and second‐degree kidnapping, and...

under a bunch of faulty charges,

you know what I mean, but I, I lost my shit

when I first went in, so they sent me to the hole, you know.

And so, was in there, and this ááááááááááer just like,

in‐between crying, and shouting, and yelling,

and reciting like whoever the áááá's lyrics...

He was out of his ááááing mind,

you know what I mean.

We all were like looking out,

and like, he's like this tall. He's shorter than him.

He ain't nothing, you know what I mean, whatever.

I mean, he was restrained, you know, like here.

And it did, it looked like they were bringing

ááááing Hannibal Lecter into the ááááing jail,

you know what I mean.

And, we were all watching, and he had the spit mask on.

I mean, like, it was straight up, like the ááááing...

the thing, you know, the thing that like,

the thing that you never believe is real...

Like, in movies. Like, it was real.

It was real then.

♪

♪

Like, as soon as Pazuzu finally got busted,

everyone came out of the woodwork.

"I knew him. We were friends."

♪

Most of the things that I've heard people say

about Pazuzu, never really ááááing happened.

♪

Might get some cool shit over here.

♪

Word up.

Mm, you gotta get this one. You gotta this one.

That one, he's like the best artist in Winston‐Salem.

♪

This is a good buddy of mine.

♪

I feel really sad that I've lost someone that I cared about.

But, and it's‐‐ not just lost that he did this,

but lost completely to me that he did do this,

you know what I mean. Like, áááá him.

♪

His life's over.

I know his, I know his life's over.

He's suffering, but at least he's not dead because of me.

♪

He was charged with murder in connection

with the deaths of two people. Now, Pazuzu Algarad is dead.

Early this morning he was found unresponsive at the

Central Prison in Raleigh, found with a wound on his arm.

The State Department of Public Safety confirmed,

calling it an apparent suicide.

♪

We have heard from corrections officers

off‐the‐record and from other inmates that Pazuzu

had been trying to bite through his arm.

There was something about all the investigation

they just didn't want us to know about.

Very disturbing that Pazuzu's mother saw it happen,

and proceeded to get ready for work.

The government used me, the government ááááed me.

I wanted to be the one to kill Pazuzu.

(gunshot)

Pazuzu's death does leave a lot of unanswered questions.

And the people he left behind are now

just left to pick up the pieces.

It's like, I don't feel shit. I have PTSD.

I drink. It helps me sleep.

I hate being a junkie.

I have to do shit that I really don't want to do.